From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9fbc059a74d74032 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-30 15:16:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Leap Seconds Message-ID: References: <9f3fmc$o0f$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Organization: LJK Software Date: 30 May 2001 18:16:56 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 991261019 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 30 May 2001 22:16:59 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:16:59 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7900 Date: 2001-05-30T18:16:56-05:00 List-Id: In article <9f3fmc$o0f$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" writes: > Tucker Taft seems to indicate that there isn't anything in the standard or > the validation suite to check for leap second computations. I'm inclined to > believe him. Counting seconds in Ada.Real_Time has more to do with relative > time computations than with dates, etc. It seems unlikely that the standard > could require dealing with leap-seconds when there are very few systems (in > the overall scheme of things) that would have up-to-date information about > leap-seconds. It would be as bad as a computer system that attempts to predict daylight savings time, which changes at the will of legislatures.